VETO 2010 - b2b pack
Tossups
1) Creator of the industrialist Vanger family, this journalist born in 1954 was an expert on Neo-Nazism and the right wing movement, but is more well known for his novels, including Men Who Hate Women. He passed away from a heart attack in Stockholm in 2004, shortly after dropping off three manuscripts to his publisher. A battle later erupted between partner Eva Gabrielsson and family over the proceeds of the trilogy that made him the world's second best selling author in 2008. FTP name this author, whose first novel had its name changed in English to refer to Lisbeth Salander's tattoo.
A. Stieg LARSSON
2) Her talents were recognized early on by Fred Rumsen, but after he was fired she took over his office - and gained his bar. A native of Brooklyn, this Norwegian-American had her child taken away by the State of New York when she was declared unfit to be a mother. For ten points, name this career woman, a secretary turned advertising copywriter, played by Elisabeth Moss, who works at Sterling, Cooper, Draper, and Pryce.
A. Margaret "PEGGY" Olson
3) This woman canonized by the Orthodox Church has a holy day of November 14th. She got her start as an actress in the theatre where her beauty was noted, and sources claim her father was the master of the bears of a hippodrome. Her rise to power and the title of Augusta in 527 AD is depicted by Procopius in his various histories. During riots in 532 A.D. between the green and blue factions in Constantinopole she is credited with convincing her husband to not flee the city. For ten points name this Empress of Byzantium and wife of Emperor Justinian the First.
A. THEODORA
4) At the 2010 G-8 Summit, he was the newest head of government in attendance. After graduating university, he worked in a patent office. In his early days he campaigned for women's right advocate Fusae Ichikawa. He lost several times before winning a seat in the lower house in 1980 with the Socialist Democratic Federation. In 1996 he announced the government was responsibility for the spread of HIV-tainted blood in 1980s and directly apologized to victims. He began 2010 as finance minister but succeeded Yukio Hatoyama in early June. For ten points, name this Democratic Party Prime Minister of Japan.
A. Naoto KAN
5) This phenomenon is used in compact disc player lenses, so that an out-of-focus circle will appear as an oval aligned on either the 45 degree or 135 degree axes, indicating whether the lens needs to be moved closer and farther. Its name comes from the Greek for 'without mark', or 'without puncture'. FTP, name this optical aberration that can be corrected by ellipsoidal, that is, "toric" lenses.
A. _ASTIGMATISM_
6) A Canadian example took place in 1819 between William Caldwell, a Montreal doctor, and Michael O'Sullivan, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada. This activity is specifically prohibited in Canada under section 71 of the Canadian criminal code and is illegal or frowned upon in other countries. An American version took place in 1804 leaving vice-president Aaron Burr the victor and the U.S. Treasury Secretary dead. Often initiated over points of honour or insults, swords and guns are the most common tools used. For ten points what is this activity to which one might challenge another by throwing down the gauntlet?
A. DUELLING or DUELS
7) SCIENCE TOSSUP. Its official logo includes the overlaid runes "Hagall" and "Bjarkan", representing the initials of Harald Blåtand (BLAH-TEND) Gormsson. Created by Jaap Haartsen and Sven Mattisso in 1994 as part of their work for Ericsson, it uses frequency-hopping spread spectrum to resist interference, and operates on the unlicensed 2.4 gigahertz "Industrial, Scientific, and Medical" radio band. FTP, name this wireless communications technology for exchanging data over short distances, commonly used for headsets, microphones, and mobile phones.
A. _BLUETOOTH_
8) Designed by Oren Lyons of the Onondaga in 1977, it traces its legitimacy to two 1794 treaties, including one brokered by George Washington which guaranteed all descendants five yards of calico a year. Similar to those of Canada and America, it has been accepted on a case-by-case basis in 40 countries. In 2006, the Council of Grand Chiefs formed a committee with the mandate to bring it up to current international standards, but the new version will not be available until late 2010. For ten points, name this document which made headlines in July 2010 due to a lacrosse team being denied visas for Great Britain due to the lack of a machine-readable zone, a radio frequency chip, and banknote paper.
A. IROQUOIS Confederacy PASSPORT or HAUDENOSAUNEE Six Nation Confederacy PASSPORT (do not prompt on Iroquois)
9) Named for a ship which wintered off Cape Sheridan in 1875 and 1876, it has five permanent inhabitants according to the 2006 Census. Located in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, it is 817 kilometers from the North Pole. For ten points, northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world, located on Ellesmere Island.
A. _ALERT_
10) In one of his earliest appearances in English literature, this character from Arthurian myth accepts a magic girdle to help protect his head. Sporting a pentacle as his symbol, this cousin to King Arthur owed a swing with an axe to his head to a large man in exchange for a similar blow delivered by the knight a year before. Narrowly avoiding seduction by another man’s wife he kept his head but returned to Camelot shamed to have failed to follow the rules of the game. For ten points name this Knight of the Round Table who faced off against the Green Knight.
A. Sir _GAWAIN_
11) Of its approximately 77 million members, 36.7 million are in its 11 African "provinces". Recent internal tensions from regional differences in attitudes toward homosexuality and the ordination of women came to a head when the primates of Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, and Rwanda boycotted the 2008 Lambeth Conference, the latest of the decennial meetings of the church. FTP name this church headed by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
A. ANGLICANISM or the _ANGLICAN_ CHURCH.
12) It is known as raqs sharqi in Arabic, but its English name is attributed to Sol Bloom, entertainment director at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. It is a popular form of exercise and entertainment today, with many different styles of the dance, which often features hip rolls, shimmys and other bodily undulations. FTP identify this style of dance which is the literal translation of the French term danse du ventre.
A. BELLY DANCE
13) This game was designed by Klaus Teuber and originally released in 1995. The first edition of 5,000 quickly sold out and has gone on to be translated from its original German into 30 different languages, with expansion sets including Seafarers, Cities and Knights, and Traders and Barbarians. In the original version players build settlements and cities to gain resources and victory points. FTP, name this popular game in which players strive to stake their claim on a deserted island.
A. SETTLERS OF CATAN
14) One of this organization's early publications was the 1955 book "A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates", important in early statistics and cryptography. 32 Nobel Prize winners have worked for this think tank that originally spun out of the Douglas Aircraft corporation in 1948. FTP, name this organisation known for its studies for the U.S. military, whose name originated from its task of doing Research ANd Development.
A. The _RAND_ Corporation
15) This word is the name of a Native American language group spoken by the Clackamas and Watlata peoples in the lower Columbia River; the code name of the a Boeing CH-47 twin-engine helicopter used for heavy lifting; and a type of blue-green salmon also known as the king, tyee, or chub. FTP, give this word that is also the name of a type of foehn (FUEN) wind that may raise winter temperatures by as much as 40 degrees in a day.
A. CHINOOK
A. Kevin _RUDD_
16) Including On Another's Sorrow in one section and London in the other, this combined poetry collection was released in 1794. Featuring two different collections, the pairing was meant to depict “the two contrary states of the human soul.” It contains now famous poems like The Chimney Sweeper and The Tyger, but the collection was unappreciated in its time. The poems were set on engravings by the poet, who himself was trained as an engraver. FTP name this famous collection of poems by William Blake.
A. _SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE_ (require both)
17) Skeletal pieces that are potentially this Italian artist's remains recently went on display in Porto Ercole to help celebrate the 400th anniversary of his death. Born in or near Milan in 1571, this artist was notorious during his lifetime for controversial artwork and fighting. In 1606 he killed a man and fled from Rome to Naples, Sicily and Malta, but died in on his way back to Rome. FTP name this artist whose well-known paintings include Bacchus and Judith beheading Holofernes.
A. Michelangelo Merisi da CARAVAGGIO
18) The victors in this conflict were the Eight-Nation Alliance, which claimed an indemnity of over 450 million ounces of silver, approximately one ounce per citizen in the defeated nation. The namesake fighters used the slogan 'Support the Qing, destroy the foreign", as they had been co-opted by Empress Dowager Cixi (TZ SHEE) of China to take action against her foreign rivals. In Beijing and other cities, foreigners of all stripes and some Chrisitian-Chinese were trapped under siege for three months. For ten points what was the name of this rebellion, so called because of its members' public demonstrations of martial arts?
A. The _BOXER_ REBELLION
19) Its unit cell consists of two dodecahedral shells and six 24-pointed shells. Originally thought to be naturally occur only in the outer Solar System, deposits have been identified on continental shelves, between 300 and 500 meters deep. Canadian and Japanese researchers extracted natural gas from deposits of it in the Mackenzie River delta in 2002, and in 2010 deposits thwarted some of BP's efforts to stem its underwater oil leak. FTP, identify this chemical structure that consists of methane trapped inside 'cages' of water, that could account for 50% to 90% of the world's supply of natural gas.
A. METHANE _CLATHRATES_
20) Its first clause to be repealed was the 26th, struck from the statute books in 1828 by the Offences against the Person Act. Today, only three clauses remain, and these guarantee the freedom of the church, the right to due process, and the special privileges of the City of London. The origins of this document were anger about the king's excommunication, crippling taxes to fund crusades, and a humiliating loss to the French, all of which caused the nobility to force King John to sign. FTP, name this 13th century English document credited with being an early forerunner to constitutional law, that limited the rights of monarchs.
A. The MAGNA CARTA (also accept the GREAT CHARTER)
21) Their tribal habits were described by Horace Miner in his 1956 paper in American Anthropologist, and were said to live between the Canadian Cree, Yaqui, and Tarahumare of Mexico. Miner focused on their body rituals, writing that "Were it not for the rituals of the mouth, they believe that their teeth would fall out, their gums bleed, their jaws shrink, their friends desert them, and their lovers reject them." One of their greatest culture heroes was Notgnihsaw, who chopped down a cherry tree in which the "Spirit of Truth" resided. FTP name this group that Miller wrote about in Body Rituals of the Nacirema.
A. _AMERICANS_ (accept early answer of "NACIREMA" equivalents).
22) Founded by Persians around 700BC, this city was the capital of the Sogdian satrapy under the Achaemenid dynasty. Many different empires controlled it over the centuries: Alexander the Great conquered it in 329BC and called it Maracanda, while in 1370 Tamerlane made it the capital of his empire. Currently, the city is the second largest in Uzbekistan. FTP name this city whose name is a conjoining of the Old Persian word "asmara" (meaning stone or rock), and the Sogdian 'qand" (meaning "fort").
A. SAMARKAND.
23) Chief of staff to Queensland opposition leader Wayne Goss, he later became one of the top ranking bureaucrats in Queensland. After losing office, he worked as Senior China Consultant for KPMG Australia. In December 2006, he defeated Kim Beazley for his party's leadership. Less than a year later, he made no mention of the Queen while taking the oath of office. In June 2010, he withdrew himself from contesting a leadership challenge. For ten points, name this Labour Prime Minister of Australia who was forced out of office, over his policy actions, by Julia Gillard.
24) In the Bible's Book of Revelations, it gives its name to the burning star that falls from heaven and poisons a third of the waters. It is the last name of Calvin's teacher in the comic Calvin and Hobbes, who in turn gets her name from the junior devil in C. S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. The original English word names plants of the genus Artemisia, especially Artemisia absinthium. FTP, name this herb whose bitter taste and thujone compound gives the flavour for the liquor absinthe.
A. _WORMWOOD_
Bonuses
1) Answer these questions about long tunnels for ten points each:
1. This country is home to the longest railway tunnel, which runs 53-kilometers at the narrowest point in the Tsugaru Strait.
A. _JAPAN_
2. Between 1983 and 2002, this city's metro built the longest subway tunnel at 41-kilometers on the system's line 9.
A. _MOSCOW_
3. This particle accelerator tunnel constructed at CERN in 1989 is a 26-kilometer circular ring that is now used by the Large Hadron Collider.